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Samavāyāngasūtra
देवाणं जहण्णेणं तेवीसं सागरोवमाई ठिती पण्णत्ता।
On the (first) earth Gem-lustre, some infernal beings' longevity is expounded as twenty-three-pit similes. On the lower seventhearth [Thick dark lustre), some infernal beings' longevity is expounded as twenty-three oceansimiles. Some demon (Asurakumāra) gods' longevity is expounded as twentythree pit-similes. Some divinities' longevity in the paradises Saudharma and Īśāna is expounded as twenty-three pit-similes. Some divinities' life span in [paradise] lower of the middle Graiveyaka is expounded twenty-three oceansimiles, at least. .
23[3] जे देवा 'हेट्ठिमहेट्ठिमगेवेजयविमाणेसु देवत्ताते उववण्णा तेसि णं देवाणं उक्कोसेणं तेवीसं सागरोवमाइं ठिती पण्णत्ता। ते णं देवा तेवीसाए 15अद्धमासेहिं आणमंति वा पाणमंति वा ऊससंति वा नीससंति वा। तेसि णं देवाणं तेवीसाए वाससहस्सेहिं आहारटे समुष्पजति।
The longevity, at the most, of those gods, manifested in celestial abode lower Graiveyaka, is expounded twenty-three ocean similes. These gods breathe in or breathe forth or exhale or inhale Conce) in every twenty-three fortnight and feel hunger after twenty three thousand years. 23[4] संतेगतिया भवसिद्धिया [जीवा जे तेवीसाए भवग्गहणेहिं सिज्झिस्संति] जाव सव्वदुक्खाणं अंतं करेस्संति॥
Among the fit to be liberated ones, [the few will liberate in the [subsequent] twenty third re-birth] up to will annihilate the entire miseries (free from the world cycle).
14. हेट्ठिमगेवे मु०॥ 15. अद्धमासाणं मु०॥
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